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Health

Community Health Worker Noria Issak speaks about contraceptive use to Fatuma Masan during a home visit in the Korogocho slum in Kenya.
No Controversy: Family Planning Saves Lives

May 14, 2012 by Gary Darmstadt

My hope is that this conversation that Melinda has started will get us closer to the moment where it is not controversial that all women and men around the world have equitable access to contraceptives.

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Poverty

Nikuze Aziza carries a sack of food aid to her family's house from a warehouse in Rwanda.
Solutions for a Hungry World

May 03, 2012 by Laurie Goering

By 2050, the planet will need at least 70 percent more food than it does today, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization predicts.

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Education

Math teacher Doris Zuniz
My Favorite Teacher? Don't Make Me Choose

May 11, 2012 by Chelsea Clinton

I hope someday to have students feel about me the way I feel about Mrs. Mitchell!

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Responding to PhilanTopic’s Questions

November 23, 2010 / Melinda Gates

Last month, the New York Times Magazine ran this Q and A. I’ve received a lot of comments about it, but this post from the PhilanTopic blog stood out.

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Category Health
Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health
Country Kenya, Brazil, United States, Malawi

Announcing the Winning GOOD/Gates Foundation Poster

August 26, 2010 / Melinda Gates

We were impressed with the many excellent submissions we received for our Millennium Development Goals poster design contest, organized in partnership with GOOD.

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Category Health
Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health, Nutrition
Country Spain, United States

Teachers Matter Most

July 09, 2010 / Vicki Phillips

There are some who suggest that teachers’ unions and education reformers represent competing agendas—one supports the status quo, the other advocates fundamental change. But to accept this as fact, you’d have to ignore our common ground.

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Category Education
Topics College-Ready Education (U.S.)

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"Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates
"The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter
"When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates
The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.
In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.